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An MIT-led team is designing artificial intelligence systems for medical diagnosis that are more collaborative and forthcoming about uncertainty.

Sojun Park, a postdoc at the Center for International Studies, has learned much from his research on intellectual property as well as his interactions with students and mentors at MIT.

In this tutorial, we build an advanced, hands-on tutorial around Google’s newly released colab-mcp, an open-source MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that lets any AI agent programmatically control Google Colab notebooks and runtimes. Across five self-contained snippets, we go from first principles...

Apple will host its next Worldwide Developers Conference the week of June 8. The company is expected to announce major updates to Siri with advanced AI capabilities.

Operations research expert Dimitris Bertsimas delivered the annual Killian Lecture, providing a look at the past and future of his work.

New capability extends Security Service Edge to inspect and secure inbound internet traffic before it reaches enterprise and service provider applications News Summary Versa, the global leader in unified security and networking, today announced Versa Inbound SSE™, a new cloud-delivered security capa...

Jensen Huang is the co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company and the engine powering the AI computing revolution. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep494-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit quest...

Lightedge, a leading provider of managed services specializing in secure, compliant, hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions announced today that it has achieved its Amazon Web Services (AWS) Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner Program designation for the ninth year. The AWS MSP Partner validation ...

Proven CEO Brings 25+ Years of AI and Cybersecurity Leadership to the Authority in AI-Powered Managed Detection and Response eSentire, The Authority in AI-powered Managed Detection and Response (MDR), today announced the appointment of James C. Foster as Chief Executive Officer. Foster assumes the r...

Helion is reportedly negotiating a deal that would see it sell 12.5% of its power output to OpenAI.

The impact of AI on marketing and sales is rewriting the playbook. Stop reacting and start using data-driven precision to outpace the competition. The boardroom is currently a house divided between those who worship the dashboard and those who are terrified of it. We’ve reached a point where the per...

Timothy Kelley Transitioning to Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer to Drive Innovation in Emerging Radiology and Virtual Care Markets TeleRay, a leading provider of cloud-based imaging collaboration and virtual care solutions, today announced the appointment of Saumay Kumar as Chief Executive Offic...

Growing attack surfaces and increasing AI use by adversaries outweigh concerns over AI guardrails Synack, the leader in human-led and AI-powered penetration testing, and Omdia, a technology research firm, released a new report, “The 2026 State of Agentic AI in Pentesting,” revealing a major gap betw...

Pipefy, a global leader in AI-driven business process orchestration, today announced that technology sales leader Rodrigo Paiva was named VP of U.S. Sales. With more than 25 years of global sales leadership experience in the U.S., Latin America and international B2B sales management, Paiva has held ...

When you type a query into a search engine, something has to decide which documents are actually relevant — and how to rank them. BM25 (Best Matching 25), the algorithm powering search engines like Elasticsearch and Lucene, has been the dominant answer to that question for decades.  It scores docume...

Stop letting AI gurus overcomplicate things. Learn the difference between Black Box vs. Glass Box AI and Training vs. inference—and start making smarter deployment decisions.

Shortly after Amazon announced its $50 billion investment in OpenAI, AWS invited me on a private tour of the chip lab at the heart of the deal.

Maybe tokens really will become the fourth pillar of engineering compensation. But engineers might want to hold the line before embracing this as a straightforward win.

Hachette Book Group said it will not be publishing “Shy Girl” over concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the text.

An anonymous Substack post accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers they were compliant” with privacy and security regulations.

Despite investor fears of an AI bubble, Nvidia's latest conference shows that most in the industry aren't concerned by that possibility.

Industry veteran brings track record of innovation from GHX, Change Healthcare, UnitedHealth Group and Amazon. Evolent Health, Inc. (NYSE: EVH), a company focused on achieving better health outcomes for people with complex conditions, today announced the appointment of health care technology leader ...

In the modern AI landscape, an agent loop is a cyclic, repeatable, and continuous process whereby an entity called an AI agent — with a certain degree of autonomy — works toward a goal.

Jointly led by the MIT Morningside Academy for Design, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, the hub will foster a dynamic community where computing, creativity, and human-centered innovation meet.